Rashad Byrdsong, the founder of Community Empowerment Association, a nonprofit community development organization in Pittsburgh, thinks that poverty needs to be addressed through a public-health lens, according to this post by Tom Zeller Jr. on Huffington Post. Although using a public-health approach in addition to, or instead of, incorporating an economic or social approach is being used by many communities, Byrdsong says it’s time to look at all issues through a public-health lens.

“All the things we talk about when we talk about poverty constitute negative health outcomes in